Monthly Archives: May 2015

This year’s legislative session has a deadline for Monday, May 18th, but the people of Minnesota, and even the legislators themselves, have been kept in the dark as negotiations are still ensuing.

Minnesota political reporters are tweeting pictures sitting outside the Governor's mansion this week, waiting for any news of a budget deal. While this show has...

Alpha News Update with Representative Pelowski on Higher Ed Spending

The education budget in Minnesota has had significant growth in the last five years, but the debate for more funding is as fierce as...

The Senate gathered to pass electronic proof of insurance, as well as a bill that includes felons voting, and other controversial provisions.

  The transportation conference committee will meet late this afternoon to try to reconcile the differences between the $7 billion House Republican plan and the...

Late last week Senators Susan Kent, D-Woodbury and Karin Housley, R-St. Mary's Point, and Representatives JoAnn Ward-D, Woodbury, and Kelly Fenton, R-Woodbury, jointly penned a commentary for MinnPost urging legislators to approve funding for the $485 million Gateway Corridor bus rapid transit project. Also called the Gold line, the project is a 12-mile dedicated bus road that will run from Union station in St. Paul to Woodbury with twelve stops along the way. Alpha News reported on the project last month.

Governor Mark Dayton, House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, D- Cook will be sharing a boat this weekend for the Governor's fishing opener on Lake Vermilion. A little bonding between the leaders before the final weeks of session may seem like a good idea, until you consider the fact that Dayton invited then-Speaker Kurt Zellers, then-Majority Leader Matt Dean, and Rep Joe Hoppe to the 2011 fishing opener and that was the year state government shut down.

On Tuesday, three Republican Senators joined with the DFL-majority to confirm the appointment of Adam Duininck as chair of the powerful Metropolitan Council. Sen Karin...

Senate and House members are gathered to hash out the differences in their two versions of the education finance bills.